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Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä

https://jgeekstudies.org/2025/06/20/wilted-lands-and-wounded-worlds-visualizing-environmental-costs-of-war-in-hayao-miyazakis-nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind/
68•zdw•2h ago•14 comments

Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

https://github.com/nxtscape/nxtscape
42•felarof•1h ago•42 comments

Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix

https://fly.io/blog/phoenix-new-the-remote-ai-runtime/
205•wut42•2h ago•93 comments

Rolling the ladder up behind us

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/rolling-ladder-behind-us/
43•techknowlogick•1h ago•22 comments

Cracovians: The Twisted Twins of Matrices

https://marcinciura.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/cracovians-the-twisted-twins-of-matrices/
13•mci•1h ago•8 comments

Oklo, the Earth's Two-billion-year-old only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor (2018)

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-old-only-known-natural-nuclear-reactor
114•keepamovin•7h ago•33 comments

Klong: A Simple Array Language

https://t3x.org/klong/
61•tosh•5h ago•3 comments

How to Design Programs 2nd Ed (2024)

https://htdp.org
37•AbuAssar•1h ago•6 comments

Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text

https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl
366•flykespice•13h ago•91 comments

A Python-first data lakehouse

https://www.bauplanlabs.com/blog/everything-as-python
27•akshayka•2d ago•5 comments

Minimal auto-differentiation engine in Rust (for educational purposes)

https://github.com/e3ntity/nanograd
19•lschneider•3h ago•0 comments

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Robotics

https://generalrobots.substack.com/p/a-brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong
67•Bogdanp•4d ago•13 comments

College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/06/15/college-baseball-venture-capital-and-the-long-maybe/
84•bcantrill•4d ago•36 comments

A deep-dive explainer on Ink and Switch's BeeKEM protocol

https://meri.garden/a-deep-dive-explainer-on-beekem-protocol/
7•erlend_sh•3d ago•0 comments

Meta announces Oakley smart glasses

https://www.theverge.com/news/690133/meta-oakley-hstn-ai-glasses-price-date
98•jmsflknr•4h ago•154 comments

Show HN: I wrote a new BitTorrent tracker in Elixir

https://github.com/Dahrkael/ExTracker
353•dahrkael•18h ago•61 comments

Asterinas: A new Linux-compatible kernel project

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1022920/ad60263cd13c8a13/
156•howtofly•15h ago•57 comments

Reworking Memory Management in CRuby [pdf]

https://blog.peterzhu.ca/assets/ismm_2025.pdf
26•hahahacorn•2d ago•1 comments

HCP Vault Secrets End of Life

https://support.hashicorp.com/hc/en-us/articles/41802449287955-HCP-Vault-Secrets-End-Of-Life
18•AmazingTurtle•1h ago•4 comments

Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/06/19/congestion-pricing-in-manhattan-is-a-predictable-success
145•edward•3h ago•220 comments

Show HN: SecureBuild – Zero-CVE Images That Pay OSS Projects

https://securebuild.com
16•grantlmiller•2h ago•5 comments

ELIZA Reanimated: Restoring the Mother of All Chatbots

https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/02/11030922/27sQDLuL7Uc
80•abrax3141•3d ago•15 comments

Qfex (YC X25) – Back End Engineer for a 24/7 Stock Exchange

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/qfex/jobs/S7XSybx-founding-backend-engineer
1•NPDW•10h ago

The Right Chemistry: How Jean Harlow became a ‘platinum blond’ (2020)

https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/article249177.html
31•thomassmith65•2d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ts-SSH – SSH over Tailscale without running the daemon

https://github.com/derekg/ts-ssh
71•i8code•14h ago•25 comments

Compiling LLMs into a MegaKernel: A path to low-latency inference

https://zhihaojia.medium.com/compiling-llms-into-a-megakernel-a-path-to-low-latency-inference-cf7840913c17
283•matt_d•22h ago•73 comments

Mierle Laderman Ukeles, a '70s artist who became a hero to 'garbage men'

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/nyregion/maintenance-artist-mierle-laderman-ukeles.html
37•samclemens•2d ago•11 comments

Giant, all-seeing telescope is set to revolutionize astronomy

https://www.science.org/content/article/giant-all-seeing-telescope-set-revolutionize-astronomy
157•gammarator•18h ago•54 comments

NASA Scientists Find Ties Between Earth's Oxygen and Magnetic Field

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-oxygen-magnetic-field-linked/
47•rbanffy•4h ago•6 comments

Show HN: SnapQL – Desktop app to query Postgres with AI

https://github.com/NickTikhonov/snap-ql
61•nicktikhonov•6h ago•42 comments
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Robotics

https://generalrobots.substack.com/p/a-brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong
67•Bogdanp•4d ago

Comments

taneq•3h ago
Halfway through and this is hilarious. Are you trying to tell me that AI originally stood for Anomalously-small Istanbulians? :D

Edit: Oh. In hindsight this (and other similarly snarky backronyms) is obviously why any time computers can do a thing it stops being “AI”.

Symmetry•2h ago
The YouTube videos will never stop.

But I think the author missed a trick by not including that time one of our Spots got shot.

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/boston-dynamics-robot-do...

EDIT: And a link to the programming languages inspiration for this post if you haven't read it already.

https://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-...

gdiamos•2h ago
Was this thing written by ChatGPT?
dmillard•2h ago
Clearly not - it's quite funny (or at least I thought so).

Anyway, the author is a well known writer in the robotics world.

modeless•1h ago
The problem with Google's robotics acquisitions was that they fired Andy Rubin less than a year after he made them. They floundered after that.

It's clear that Google's management simply didn't have the patience to continue putting money into hardware development before the software was ready. They forced premature commercialization on BD and then dumped them on SoftBank. Strong top-level executive support could have changed that. I wonder what Google robotics could have been.

no_wizard•1h ago
Worth remembering he was fired due to sexual harassment[0]. While Google did the right thing in firing him, they deserve far more criticism for the cover ups. Both of which are frankly unacceptable

[0]: https://archive.is/gmvI7

immibis•1h ago
Given the choice between having a sexual harasser on staff, or missing out on a billion dollars of profit, every company in the world will choose to keep the sexual harasser and the profit, so that can't be the only reason.
whatshisface•29m ago
That's a very unrealistic perspective on management. To begin with, no individual is ever seen as personally irreplaceable.
mooseling•50m ago
I'm going through a breakup right now and really enjoying posts like this. Interesting, funny, accessible. The Grug Brained Developer also really hit the spot. Any other recommendations in this vein? Thanks!
fydorm•27m ago
Lifting weights
ianbicking•43m ago
Why do folks think remote telepresence never became popular, outside of the occasional appearance in sitcoms?
Groxx•39m ago
Because almost nobody has ever seen a telepresence robot in use.

Like, factually.

Unless you count video calls as telepresence, but I think most do not.

ge96•17m ago
Maybe the remotely-operated robots, no face though